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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even before the buildings collapsed, there was debris falling from the buildings and people jumping out of the windows.  I'm just not seeing how a triage area would have been set up so close to the buildings.

Maybe someone who was there can explain it better.[/quote]

My Dh was a medical resident during the 9/11 attack and he was one of the many doctors/nurses/EMTs that literally rushed directly to the site as soon as it happened.

He worked all night in a triage that was set up there, thankfully not in the line of the debris.

So yes, triage areas were set up everywhere.  The the other poster asking how far medical personnel were allowed to enter by the NYPD- during the immediate occurrence they were allowed anywhere.

This was a disaster that was unprecedented, no one knew exactly what to do so in a tragedy like this doctors and nurses are absolutely allowed to help where it's necessary. And no one knew the building would collapse or that another building would also be struck.  It was chaos. Scary, tragic, chaos.
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I think that my point was that anywhere in the immediate vicinity of those buildings would have been within the line of debris. As the fire progressed and the situation deteriorated, things were falling off the buildings, people were jumping, the smoke was getting thicker.  I would expect that police and fire dept advised medical people to get back and that they told them to set up triage areas away from the buildings.  I really doubt that Sneha or any other doctor/nurse/emt would have been allowed to remain inside the lobby area of a building that is on fire or even directly outside the building.

I do realize that no one was expecting the buildings to collapse and that they might have been advised to back even farther away if an imminent collapse was anticipated.

Were there groups in triage areas believed to have been killed when the towers fell?[/quote]

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